I'm an archaeologist working in local government as well as
studying towards a PhD (part-time - it takes forever!) and teaching
a bit at university. I also do quite a lot of dancing, which I've
been doing for about 5 years, now - swing and blues, but mostly
blues these days. Which looks like this (when really good teachers
do it): http://youtu.be/sghrHxKeGhc. I'm generally pretty cheerful,
like intellectual conversations and geeking out over things I care
about (archaeology, dancing, stuff going on in the world, the idea
that there might be an epic fire-zombie/golem-zombie showdown
between certain brothers in the last GoT book). I quite often make
jokes to cope with awkward situations. I don't always judge them
well.

See above - teaching, studying, working, dancing, going to the pub.
I quite often go to dance events in other cities and sometimes
abroad - I've been to Switzerland, Inverness, London and Berlin for
big ones this year as well as fairly regular trips to London and
Oxford. I have lots of friends in a lot of different places, so do
my best to stay in touch with people - facebook seems to be useful
for this.

Other things I love: travelling, my job, anything to do with
palaeolithic archaeology, books, good sci fi (books and tv - more
Firefly than Star Trek, though), hiking in the countryside/by the
sea, going to interesting performances or exhibitions, singing,
blues music (and loads of other genres, but I DJ blues for dancing
at the moment and am getting very into it), parties/dancing with
friends, drinking tea/gin/wine/ale, cooking/eating great vegetarian
food (Vietnamese is my current favourite).

I love finding random things to do at weekends, like to get out of
the city for a stomp in the countryside or a visit to somewhere
historical/archaeological when I can, go to the Watershed or Cube
to see foreign-language/independent/arthouse films, occasionally
make it to the Old Vic for plays, read proper books when I have
time and listen to a lot of music (swing to make me happy, blues
and lyrical stuff to help me feel sad or thoughtful – e.g. Tom
Waits, Joni Mitchell, Elliot Smith, Nick Drake, Anja Garbarek – and
classical to help me work).

Archaeology things like identifying random metal objects people
find in the garden, academic-type sciencey thinking (aka critical
analysis), dancing, singing, dressing up in a vintage frock or
raincoat and wellies, depending on the occasion and the weather,
not taking myself too seriously, making people laugh, being silly,
ranting about politics or discussing evolutionary theory in the pub
. . . Also occasionally completely reinventing myself or packing a
bag and heading off to the other side of the world for extended
adventures.

Books –
Mara and Dann, Doris Lessing
Blindness, José Saramago
A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf
Death and the Penguin, A Matter of Life and Death, Andrey
Kurkov
The Disposessed, The Left Hand of Darkness, the Earthsea books,
Ursula Le Guin
On the Road, Jack Kerouac
Philip Pullman
Neil Gaiman
Loads of others, plus a pile of must-reads that I swear I'll get
around to one day . . .

TV: The Thick of It, Borgen, Miranda, The Killing, Friday Night
Dinner, Fresh Meat, Dr Who, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, QI, Black
Books, Father Ted, Green Wing, the Mighty Boosh, Flight of the
Conchords. Classics like Monty Python, Jeeves and Wooster,
Blackadder, Fawlty Towers, M*A*S*H (Alan Alda as Hawkeye was my
earliest crush, which probably explains my soft spot for men in 50s
Hawaiian shirts). Radio 4, e.g. the News Quiz, the Now Show, a good
play without too much wrist-slitting. I love a bit of R4 drama like
the Complete Smiley by John Le Carré. And more recently The Waves,
by Virginia Woolf. And you can't beat In Our Time for a lovely bit
of Melvyn Bragg and his brain!

For music, see above.

Films – too many to list. Prefer independent/foreign language. I
recently saw Beasts of the Southern Wild and On the Road, both of
which I loved – though you should never see the film instead of
reading the original Kerouac. Saw Surviving Life (Theory and
Practice) last year, also excellent (funny and dark at the same
time). Another independent one called Frozen River. Studio Ghibli,
Ken Loach, foreign language, e.g. anything with Jaques Tati,
anything by Almodovar. Amelie for romance. Easy Rider, The Shining,
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Silly British comedies like Sean
of the Dead. Classics, like anything with Alec Guinness or by
Hitchcock.

Human evolution - e.g. what could the evolutionary explanation for
that behaviour/trait be? Friends and family, places I've been or
want to travel to, politics/how the world could work better if I
was in charge ;-) (or nobody was in charge), stories, music and
dancing, how on earth to manage all the things I'm doing at the
moment, pay the rent and still work on my thesis . . .

Hunting down danceable jazz/blues in Bristol/further afield like a
chrome-soled tiger! Or choir rehearsals followed by pub, or pub
with skittles or bar billiards, or going to the cinema to see a
strange surreal Czech film, or cooking vegetarian Vietnamese noodle
soup and summer rolls for friends, with beers, wine or gin and
tonic. Or eating a pizza and knitting a new hat (not at the same
time - tomato) in front of a film or box set.